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Light upon the narrow path

Meter: 8.6.8.6 Appears in 154 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:2 First Line: Bright was the guiding star that led Topics: Means of Grace Reading the Scriptures

By All Your Saints Still Striving

Author: Horatio Bolton Nelson (1823-1913) Meter: 7.6.7.6 D Appears in 116 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2 Topics: Andrew; John, the Apostle; John, the Baptist; Mary; Mary Magdalene; Peter; Stephen; Thomas; The Saints Used With Tune: KING'S LYNN Text Sources: Rev. The Hymnal 1982

venite, adoremus

Author: John F. Wade (c. 1711-1786) Meter: Irregular Appears in 92 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 1:18-25, 2:1-6 First Line: Adeste, fideles Lyrics: 1 Adeste, fideles, laeti, triumphantes, venite, venite in Bethlehem; natum videte regem angelorum: [Refrain:] venite, adoremus, venite, adoremus, venite, adoremus Dominum. 2 Deum de Deo, Lumen de Lumine, gestant puellae viscera, Deum verum, genitum, non factum: [Refrain] 3. Cantet nunc hymnos chorus angelorum; cantet nunc aula caelestium: gloria in excelsis Deo! [Refrain] 4 Ergo qui natus die hodierna, Jesu, tibi sit gloria: Patris aeterni verbum caro factum: [Refrain] Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Christmas and Epiphany Used With Tune: ADESTE FIDELES

O thou who by a star didst guide

Author: Rev. John Mason Neale (1818-1866) Appears in 67 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:9-11 Topics: The Lord Jesus Christ

Earth has many a noble city

Author: Prudentius, 348-c. 413; Edward Caswall, 1814-1878 Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 61 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Lyrics: 1 Earth has many a noble city; Bethl'hem, thou dost all excel: out of thee the Lord from heaven came to rule his Israel. 2 Fairer than the sun at morning was the star that told his birth, to the world its God announcing seen in fleshly form on earth. 3 Eastern sages at his cradle make oblations rich and rare; see them give in deep devotion, gold and frankincense and myrrh. 4 Sacred gifts of mystic meaning: incense doth their God disclose, gold the King of kings proclaimeth, myrrh his sepulcher foreshows. 5 Jesu, whom the Gentiles worshipped at thy glad Epiphany, unto thee with God the Father and the Spirit glory be. Topics: Epiphany; Epiphany Used With Tune: STUTTGART

Lord of the Dance

Author: Sydney Bertram Carter (1915-2004) Meter: Irregular with refrain Appears in 52 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1 First Line: I danced in the morning when the world was begun Refrain First Line: Dance, then, wherever you may be Lyrics: 1 I danced in the morning when the world was begun, and I danced in the moon and the stars, and the sun, and I came down from heaven and I danced on the earth-- at Bethlehem I had my birth. Refrain: Dance, then, wherever you may be: I am the Lord of the Dance, said he, and I’ll lead you all, wherever you may be, and I’ll lead you all in the Dance, said he. 2 I danced for the scribe and the Pharisee, but they would not dance and they would not follow me. I danced for the fishermen, for James and John -- they came with me and the Dance went on. [Refrain] 3 I danced on the Sabbath when I cured the lame, the holy people said it was a shame. They whipped and they stripped and they hung me high, and they left me there on a Cross to die. [Refrain] 4 I danced on a Friday and the sky turned black -- it’s hard to dance with the devil on your back. They buried my body and they thought I’d gone -- but I am the Dance and I still go on. [Refrain] 5 They cut me down and I leapt up high -- I am the life that’ll never, never die. I’ll live in you if you’ll live in me, I am the Lord of the Dance, said he. [Refrain] Topics: Christ Incarnate Passion and Death; Christ Incarnate Public Ministry; Dance; Jesus Life and Ministry Used With Tune: LORD OF THE DANCE

Bethlehem, a noble city

Author: Prudentius (348-c. 413); Edward Caswall (1814-1878) Meter: 8.7.8.7 Appears in 51 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 Lyrics: 1 Bethlehem, a noble city, has been blessed beyond compare, for the gracious God of heaven once became incarnate there. 2 Fairer than the sun at morning was the star that told his birth, to the world its God announcing, seen in human form on earth. 3 From the east came men of wisdom bringing treasures prized of old, tributes to a greater wisdom, gifts of incense, myrrh, and gold. 4 Sacred gifts of mystic meaning: incense shows that God has come, gold proclaims him king of nations, myrrh foretells his saving tomb. 5 Holy Jesus, in your brightness to the gentile world displayed, with the Father and the Spirit endless praise to you be paid. Topics: Life in Christ Christ Incarnate - Christmas and Epiphany; Christian Year Season of Epiphany Used With Tune: STUTTGART

O Holy Night

Author: John S. Dwight, 1813-1893 Meter: Irregular Appears in 50 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 First Line: O holy night, the stars are brightly shining Used With Tune: CANTIQUE DE NOEL

I Wonder As I Wander

Author: John Jacob Niles, 1892-1980 Meter: 12.11.11.12 Appears in 19 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:1-12 First Line: I wonder as I wander, out under the sky Topics: Christmas Used With Tune: I WONDER Text Sources: Appalachian carol

The Star Proclaims the King Is Here

Author: John M. Neale; Coelius Sedulius Meter: 8.8.8.8 Appears in 10 hymnals Scripture: Matthew 2:9 Lyrics: 1 The star proclaims the King is here; But, Herod, why this senseless fear? He takes no realms of earth away Who gives the realms of heav'nly day. 2 The wiser Magi see from far And follow on His guiding star; And, led by light, to light they press And by their gifts their God confess. 3 Within the Jordan's crystal flood In meekness stands the Lamb of God And, sinless, sanctifies the wave, Mankind from sin to cleanse and save. 4 At Cana first His power is shown; His might the blushing waters own And, changing as He speaks the word, Flow wine, obedient to their Lord. 5 All glory, Jesus, be to Thee For this Thy glad epiphany; Whom with the Father we adore And Holy Ghost forevermore. Amen. Topics: The Church Year Epiphany Used With Tune: WO GOTT ZUM HAUS